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I note Festival Way has been closed in the Sylvia Crowe landscaped Park south
of the River Avon to facilitate bore hole drilling for BRT2 . "The Bendy-bus"
as its known to the papers herabouts.
We had the AVTMpublic inquiry this time last year and still dont know the
result of the inspectors reports on this land which is now in conservation
area.
Wake up BS3 its going to have a big effect on us.
Not intended to do us any good as its for North Somerset users,
Bristol we just ends up paying for it.
But its in our park right now.
all best
Stephen Wickham

This seems to have been one they drilled earlier, in May, adjacent Ashton
Avenue Bridge in the park. Circumstantially the day after a protest meeting
against the scheme took place on the same spot !
All best
Stephen Wickham

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From: STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>
To: Ben Barker <email obscured>>;
<email obscured>" <email obscured>>
Cc: stephenwickham <email obscured>>
Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 0:37
Subject: BRT2 Drilling Rig closes Festival way in BS3 Park [AVTM Bendy-Bus
route]
I note Festival Way has been closed in the Sylvia Crowe landscaped Park south
of the River Avon to facilitate bore hole drilling for BRT2 . "The Bendy-bus"
as its known to the papers hereabouts.
We had the AVTMPublic Inquiry this time last year and still don't know the
result of the inspectors reports on this land which is now in conservation
area.
Wake up BS3 its going to have a big effect on us.
Not intended to do us any good as its for North Somerset users,
Bristol we just ends up paying for it.
But its in our park right now.
all best
Stephen Wickham

And now here they are in Stereo with two drilling rigs between Avon Crescent
the river and A-Bond.
To be fair a little old lady used to take a long bus trip daily to tell the
assembled experts at the AVTM Public Inquiry that they hadn't done their
geology before designing their cunning plan and calculating its exact cost for
the councillors to vote on.
And those drawing salaries and fees to be there rubbished her and questioned
her qualifications...(its called a rebuttal and a cross examination)
And Lo it came to pass a year later that those drawing salaries and fees to be
there did start to get their act together and prove her correct. While drawing
salaries and fees to do so of course.
all best
Stephen Wickham

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From: STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>
To: <email obscured>" <email obscured>>
Cc: STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>; Ben Barker
<email obscured>>
Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2013, 8:03
Subject: Re: BRT2 Drilling Rig closes Festival way in BS3 Park [AVTM Bendy-Bus
route]
This seems to have been one they drilled earlier, in May, adjacent Ashton
Avenue Bridge in the park. Circumstantially the day after a protest meeting
against the scheme took place on the same spot !
All best
Stephen Wickham
________________________________
From: STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>
To: Ben Barker <email obscured>>;
<email obscured>" <email obscured>>
Cc: stephenwickham <email obscured>>
Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 0:37
Subject: BRT2 Drilling Rig closes Festival way in BS3 Park [AVTM Bendy-Bus
route]
I note Festival Way has been closed in the Sylvia Crowe landscaped Park south
of the River Avon to facilitate bore hole drilling for BRT2 . "The Bendy-bus"
as its known to the papers hereabouts.
We had the AVTMPublic Inquiry this time last year and still don't know the
result of the inspectors reports on this land which is now in conservation
area.
Wake up BS3 its going to have a big effect on us.
Not intended to do us any good as its for North Somerset users,
Bristol we just ends up paying for it.
But its in our park right now.
all best
Stephen Wickham

Well they are still at it!
With those doing the drilling working hard, extracting expensive cores and
boxing them up, so they must be getting a lot of good information for digging
up the steam railway behind A-Bond for the new Bus route from the Ashton Avenue
River Bridge to Cumberland Rd. The green area below Smeaton Rd becomes a
two-lane bus road and embankment much bigger than the present railway.
A runt of the shortened steam railway gets terminated in among the rigs instead
of getting to an actual destination point any more.
Whats not on the plans is the chaotic free BCC overflow car and BCC-van parking
for all the green-guys at CREATE on their daily car commute . One had to keep
stopping and step aside for frustrated road traffic fighting both ways on
Thursday. Imagine the inconsiderate drillers taking up their spaces! Rumour
once had it this was a segregated cycle route and dog-walk, ~(there's even a
better by bike demonstration video!) Sustrans national route 41 indeed! But
that all went out the window some while ago, and its just as bad without the
drillers adding some genuine confusion.
Just imagine what it will be like as they actually build their expensive new
road...
all best
Stephen Wickham

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And now here they are in Stereo with two drilling rigs between Avon Crescent
the river and A-Bond.
To be fair a little old lady used to take a long bus trip daily to tell the
assembled experts at the AVTM Public Inquiry that they hadn't done their
geology before designing their cunning plan and calculating its exact cost for
the councillors to vote on.
And those drawing salaries and fees to be there rubbished her and questioned
her qualifications...(its called a rebuttal and a cross examination)
And Lo it came to pass a year later that those drawing salaries and fees to be
there did start to get their act together and prove her correct. While drawing
salaries and fees to do so of course.
all best
Stephen Wickham
________________________________
From: STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>
To: <email obscured>" <email obscured>>
Cc: STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>; Ben Barker
<email obscured>>
Sent: Saturday, 8 June 2013, 8:03
Subject: Re: BRT2 Drilling Rig closes Festival way in BS3 Park [AVTM Bendy-Bus
route]
This seems to have been one they drilled earlier, in May, adjacent Ashton
Avenue Bridge in the park. Circumstantially the day after a protest meeting
against the scheme took place on the same spot !
All best
Stephen Wickham
________________________________
From: STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>
To: Ben Barker <email obscured>>;
<email obscured>" <email obscured>>
Cc: stephenwickham <email obscured>>
Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 0:37
Subject: BRT2 Drilling Rig closes Festival way in BS3 Park [AVTM Bendy-Bus
route]
I note Festival Way has been closed in the Sylvia Crowe landscaped Park south
of the River Avon to facilitate bore hole drilling for BRT2 . "The Bendy-bus"
as its known to the papers hereabouts.
We had the AVTMPublic Inquiry this time last year and still don't know the
result of the inspectors reports on this land which is now in conservation
area.
Wake up BS3 its going to have a big effect on us.
Not intended to do us any good as its for North Somerset users,
Bristol we just ends up paying for it.
But its in our park right now.
all best
Stephen Wickham
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People may not realise that not only does BRT2 mean the intrusion of a large
number of buses through this (area (including Butterfly Junction), but plenty
of associated traffic control kit too. For example, traffic lights on both
sides of the bridge-very appealing! So walkers, cyclists, runners etc get held
when buses are being prioritised through the area. Still, they might have to
reduce the commuter parking a bit to make it happen.

Now they've drilled a Telemetry hole on the top of the Sylvia Crowe Hill among
the trees in the Park above Clift House Road BS3.(pictured)
This will be because they will be afraid of the hill falling falling down on
them when they widen the railway cutting trough the park (Festival Way#) to
accept their two Bus Lanes and service Road. They will need to build a
retaining wall they think~but how big and expensive?
Their budget for the third of a mile from Winterstoke Rd to reach the start of
Ashton Avenue Bridge (the cycle-railway bridge over the river)via the back of
Meridian flats (former Megabowl) in the Southville Ward is about 1.4 million
with two bus lanes and a service road and some traffic lights. No allowance for
landscaping and ecology including the Park and the Nature corridor sections.
And no structures allowance despite drawing retaining walls in the park. [All
figures provided to the Public Inquiry].If they are in budget Bristol pays
Half, though why Bristol wants it in the first place remains a mystery. If they
are over-budget Bristol pays all.
On a lighter note and inthe mean time, some arty graffiti stencils have
appeared on the Ashton Avenue Bridge.Made in three colours They seem to
indicate "no buses" are allowed in the cycle lane. Quite amusing and much
better than the usual tagging ! Probably not by Banksy, but who knows !
1 million Budget to re-weld the old bridge and make a Bus-Lane in the middle.
What do you think ? Over or Under? Higher or Lower? We pay half or we pay all !
all best
Stephen Wickham

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On 17 Jun 2013, at 14:29, STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>
wrote:
> ― Attachment links are at the end of this email ―
>
> Now they've drilled a Telemetry hole on the top of the Sylvia Crowe Hill
among the trees in the Park above Clift House Road BS3.(pictured)
>
> This will be because they will be afraid of the hill falling falling down on
them when they widen the railway cutting trough the park (Festival Way#) to
accept their two Bus Lanes and service Road. They will need to build a
retaining wall they think~but how big and expensive?
>
> Their budget for the third of a mile from Winterstoke Rd to reach the start
of Ashton Avenue Bridge (the cycle-railway bridge over the river)via the back
of Meridian flats (former Megabowl) in the Southville Ward is about 1.4 million
with two bus lanes and a service road and some traffic lights. No allowance for
landscaping and ecology including the Park and the Nature corridor sections.
And no structures allowance despite drawing retaining walls in the park. [All
figures provided to the Public Inquiry].If they are in budget Bristol pays
Half, though why Bristol wants it in the first place remains a mystery. If they
are over-budget Bristol pays all.
>
> On a lighter note and inthe mean time, some arty graffiti stencils have
appeared on the Ashton Avenue Bridge.Made in three colours They seem to
indicate "no buses" are allowed in the cycle lane. Quite amusing and much
better than the usual tagging ! Probably not by Banksy, but who knows !
>
> 1 million Budget to re-weld the old bridge and make a Bus-Lane in the middle.
What do you think ? Over or Under? Higher or Lower? We pay half or we pay all !
>
> all best
> Stephen Wickham
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: finecarrots <email obscured>>
> To: <email obscured>
> Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013, 10:36
> Subject: Re: [GB-Forum] BRT2 Drilling Rig closes Festival way in BS3 Park
[AVTM Bendy-Bus route
>
>
> People may not realise that not only does BRT2 mean the intrusion of a large
number of buses through this (area (including Butterfly Junction), but plenty
of associated traffic control kit too. For example, traffic lights on both
sides of the bridge-very appealing! So walkers, cyclists, runners etc get held
when buses are being prioritised through the area. Still, they might have to
reduce the commuter parking a bit to make it happen.
> Mike Ginger
>
> About/contact finecarrots:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/22w1evRaVnl1TlKGFQ41at

Sunday morning saw some good natured lobbying of the hearty cyclists on their
return loops across Ashton Avenue Bridge in the rain at the end of the Big Bike
Ride. It was generally agreed they wouldn't want to stop for leaflets in the
circumstances but many slowed to take in the gist of the posters. Public
Awareness of the detail of the BRT2scheme has been kept deliberately low.
On Monday the drillers moved to Cumberland Rd BS1 where they have been working
hard on their core-sampling through Tuesday. The original idea was to tear up
the industrial railway for an inbound bus lane and use the bus-park lane of the
road as the outbound bus lane, spicing things up with with a roller-coaster
ramp to combine the services into an alternate running single carriageway just
East of Aardman animations , dip through a trough dug under the skew railway
bridge toward the docks, and then ripup the harbourside to M-shed. They had
about 5-million in the budget tobuild over a kilometer between Ashton Avenue
Bridge and M-shed at the Public Inquiry. (Bristol Pays Half , to decimate one
of its own principle heritage tourist attractions for the benefit of a select
group of North Somerset commuters !)
A year after the event we still don't know what the Inspectors made of all this
activity proposed in the City Docks Conservation Area.
There were some inconsistencies in all this: Just for example, They drew piles
up the middle of the Cumberland rd, but didn't ask the noise consultant to
assess the noise of sinking them in a residential area. So there wasn't any
noise impact in the noise report to the PI. They couldn't see any ecology in a
nature corridor either, and treated the New Cut as a shallow lake.(see
illustrative cross-section)
No doubt all these expensive cores will mean they can do some proper design for
the New-Cut borderssoon.
all best
Stephen Wickham

The Red-line on the badly drawn map is the level of detail offered by the Major
Projects Service Director to the Mayor and his Cabinet this coming Thursday on
the existing AVTM route through Ashton . It appears to show the shortest
possible "Town Green without Stadium" option exercised at the Public Inquiry
followed by a wobble down Colliters brook; no detail at all of the
veryexpensive and ugly infrastructure required at Winterstoke Road to cross and
constrain the Portishead railway branch; and a wild slash through the Sylvia
Crowe Hill into the Wessex Water estate adjacent our park before jumping the
River on a New Bridge South of A-Bond. With a station-stop built in the river.
I don't think they meant to do that but its good-enough for the hard-pressed
politicianswho will never notice while nodding it through...... ??
On Wednesday the Drillers got East of Aardman animations on their New Cut Tour.
Given all the green stuff in the picture its easy to see why Halcrow's
ecologist told the Inspectors there was no Ecology in the Bristol bit of the
route. And our planners dutifully but unconvincingly tried to back him up until
cross-examined.
On Friday a drill-rig was found outside Spike Island Arts among the
street-trees. In the original plan all the trees were to be felled and the road
widened to the window-sills of the building while the sponsors sent 6,000
photo-shopped mailshots out to the public with the trees still standing in a
computer-widened road. This became one of the first problematic-focus-issues on
DETAIL with the public in 2010. But the false-picture remained the scheme
flag-ship-image thereafter.
Also on Friday a new type of rig was to be seen outside the Cottage Pub in the
current Bus-Park strip.
Finally the same rig is visible mimicking St Mary Redcliffe when seen from the
Underfall yard railway crossing where so much now familiar is to change.
all best
Stephen Wickham

Earlier Cumberland Rd bus-park holes near the Cottage seem to have been capped
and are now getting a full running-road resurfacing treatment around their
covers.
At Avon Crescent a tripod rig moved in on 24th June and also dug a telemetry
hole.
By the 30th June they seem to have finished their work but the land looks the
worse for wear at the Avon Crescent rail crossing afterwards.
4th July No recovery at Avon crescent. Perhaps its been poisoned?
all best
Stephen Wickham

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From: STEPHEN WICKHAM <email obscured>>
To: <email obscured>
Sent: Monday, 24 June 2013, 2:16
Subject: Re: [GB-Forum] BRT2 Drilling Rig closes Festival way in BS3 Park [AVTM
Bendy-Bus route
― Attachment links are at the end of this email ―
The Red-line on the badly drawn map is the level of detail offered by the Major
Projects Service Director to the Mayor and his Cabinet this coming Thursday on
the existing AVTM route through Ashton . It appears to show the shortest
possible "Town Green without Stadium" option exercised at the Public Inquiry
followed by a wobble down Colliters brook; no detail at all of the
veryexpensive and ugly infrastructure required at Winterstoke Road to cross and
constrain the Portishead railway branch; and a wild slash through the Sylvia
Crowe Hill into the Wessex Water estate adjacent our park before jumping the
River on a New Bridge South of A-Bond. With a station-stop built in the river.
I don't think they meant to do that but its good-enough for the hard-pressed
politicianswho will never notice while nodding it through...... ??
On Wednesday the Drillers got East of Aardman animations on their New Cut Tour.
Given all the green stuff in the picture its easy to see why Halcrow's
ecologist told the Inspectors there was no Ecology in the Bristol bit of the
route. And our planners dutifully but unconvincingly tried to back him up until
cross-examined.
On Friday a drill-rig was found outside Spike Island Arts among the
street-trees. In the original plan all the trees were to be felled and the road
widened to the window-sills of the building while the sponsors sent 6,000
photo-shopped mailshots out to the public with the trees still standing in a
computer-widened road. This became one of the first problematic-focus-issues on
DETAIL with the public in 2010. But the false-picture remained the scheme
flag-ship-image thereafter.
Also on Friday a new type of rig was to be seen outside the Cottage Pub in the
current Bus-Park strip.
Finally the same rig is visible mimicking St Mary Redcliffe when seen from the
Underfall yard railway crossing where so much now familiar is to change.
all best
Stephen Wickham
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